One good Tern deserves another!

Those of you who follow my blog fairly regularly will have noticed that Rob and I are avid bird watchers! Something that always puzzles and amazes us is this; no matter how many birds we see flying in flocks or formations, wheeling and swirling, ducking and diving, we have never seen a mid-air collision! Once or twice we have seen a quick backpedalling motion and some ruffled feathers, especially when the leader of a V formation of Sacred Ibis slows down and the chaps in the slipstream suddenly catch up….fast, but never anything to cause a crash or emergency landing! Our village follows five bays along the coastline which means that at any time of the day, we see sea birds. One of the bays, called Moeriese Baai, is home to an uncountable number of Swift Terns. They set off every morning on their forage for food, or whatever they do, and every evening they return. In their hundreds! They spend a lot of time following fishing boats for the jettisoned by-catch and as we live close to the 'Sea Harvest' factory, there are a lot of boats for them to follow!

Terns on the rocks at MoerieseBaai.